Le Cadeaux Melamine Color Coordination Guide – Part 3 – Wallpaper patterns (both black and green)

Anyone who has tried to match colors when buying online knows how difficult it is. Colors vary on each computer, depending on the resolution, the quality of the display and often the quality of the photograph itself. Our eyes all perceive color differently too. This makes matching anything a challenge.

One of the issues that has come up in the past few months is how our solid color melamine dishes coordinate with the patterned ones. And what seemed at first like a no-brainer, is in fact a bit more challenging.

Colors that we thought would obviously go together, when put side by side, actually do not work.

In an effort to help our customers pick out the best possible combination, we have devised a buying guide that we will divide by pattern to keep things simple. We photographed each design with each solid, so you can see for yourself. And we will give our opinion and rank them according to our personal opinion (and since we have them here, we can tell honestly and without the biais of a monitor, what we feel works).

Black and White Wallpaper

View the different Black Wallpaper pieces

1. With yellow

Dramatic, looks nice

2. With blue

Not really.

3. with Green

Kind of depends on the decor, we think

4. With red

Our favorite

The verdict:

Red works best, yellow is not bad. We do not really like the blue or green but especially with the green, it’s all a matter of what works in your decor and color scheme.

Green and white wallpaper

View the different Wallpaper pieces

1. With red

Ho hum

2. With Green

Not very good at all

3. with blue

Again, not great

4. with yellow

Not really either

Our verdict:

None work very well at all. We would recommend waiting for the arrival of the cream and white solid dishes, later in Spring of 2008 at which time we will of course post an update!